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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1939
Page
4
Readers reflect on spiritual questions from Matthew 19 20 while the page notes local growth hopes for Decatur Alabama a 30 000 population goal and upcoming elections. Headlines touch Hitler Britain and war talk with local highway plans and a push for the Bee Line to the Gulf while civic concerns mix with religious commentary.
The Daily promotes a Five Year Plan for Morgan County agriculture urging farmers to study it and adopt sound farming. It stresses diversified crops, market awareness, and disciplined effort as keys to security and independent success.
The piece surveys European diplomacy amid conflicting Berlin signals. It notes Hitler’s possible Poland stance and Danzig focus, UK-France reactions, and a dawning Far East shift with Grew’s near-term post and Japan’s moves to secure a trade deal. It contrasts Mussolini’s limited war prep with Rome's blackout and mutual axis tensions.
Off the record a group of officials wants to hire the ghost writer of a noted letter supporting Danzig seizing a corridor. The document is praised as a diplomatic classic for its honesty and persuasive case.
War circles ridicule European reports on Hitler’s air force and plane defects while General Arnold, head of the air corps, asserts knowledge of aviation matters and contrasts with Hitler’s claims. Russians rumored to ship arms to Poland in case of war are also noted.
The State Department continued to grapple with European age issues as President’s veteran secretary Steve Early started his vacation on Monday, signaling a pause in top diplomacy during a tense period.
In Indianapolis on August 30 a family reported repeated thefts of outdoor washing. Mrs. Caylor described hanging clothes in the backyard while someone stole them, leading her to inform police after another incident yesterday.
Interruption over a wreck causes blame shifting toward negligence in the City of San Francisco incident while international politics churn. The piece links Mussolini and Hitler moves, a Dewey detective missteps in Lepke hunt, and celebrity marriages shuffle with Dietrich Grable Shaw rumors. Public stock moves and Moscow archives add flavor. Local figures and culture weave through the fragment.
The column notes two famed midtown restaurants set to shutter unless they secure final credit. It mentions other society details including the Hopes adopting a child, Mary Daly gravely ill, and various international political rumors and scandals brewing around columnists and ambassadors.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon resigns as chief editorial writer of The Greenwich Time after a clash with Wythe Williams over a front page apology for Van Loon's Father Coughlin related editorial remark. Williams demanded the apology for the broadcast blessing remark.
A collage of society notes and literary jabber. The Dies Committee targets Fritz Max Cahan over affidavits for Men Against Hitler. Dewey warns socialites against nightlife photos. Lepke links to our past as we recall schoolmates and a 25 year reunion. Various brief items mention Helen Hayes manager Essex, Augusta Roland, Lt. Comm. Wishard appointment, Sonny Burbank and Eve Luxenberg, Elaine Keiffer, Mortimer Cobb, Skinnay Ennis, Carmine Cahoun, B L Frank and a Broadway sign designer who also created Cubs uniforms.
Hearing reveals Harvard students trained by Goebbels inspired propaganda in Germany to spread hate in the United States. The group’s leader is the son of an American newspaper man and is secretly trained in Berlin. Bund members allegedly use short wave radio from home to contact Germany. An American woman runs a local station promoting patriotism and is hostile to short wave users. The United States plans to maximize aid to England and France with all possible supplies and munitions.
The sermon discusses Second Corinthians 5 14 15 on the love of Christ constraining believers and its applications to Christians and the unsaved. It reflects on Moody's preaching emphasis God is love and relates personal conversion experiences and the restraining power of divine love. Also notes local notices on pets vaccination, travel plans, a party, a visit, a birth, and a tonsil operation.
The wife of Loyalist aviator Dahl, captured by Franco, plans divorce in Greece accusing him of consorting with many senoritas while Dahl allegedly rooms at a Burgos inn. A newspaper item notes further sensational lines about the era. The rest mentions legal twists and public figures in passing.
Dr. Logan Clendening argues smallpox rising while typhoid and diphtheria decline due to vaccination. He urges universal inoculation for immunity, notes 1936 US cases, and recalls vaccination history from eight to fourteen months with follow ups every four to seven years.
Bowles and Rountree return from Tate Springs Tennessee while H M Priest reports mixed crop conditions after travels through Tennessee Kentucky and Ohio. Local officials instruct the city to proceed with conduit installation for electric light lines on the Tennessee River bridge.
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